News from July 2013
By State Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This afternoon, the House of Representatives will consider the bipartisan Nuclear Iran Prevention Act (H.R. 850), introduced by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member. Approved unanimously by the Committee in May, the bill has 378 co-sponsors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: LONDON, KY - Lois Elaine Smith, 53, of Hazard, KY., pleaded guilty today to charges of currency structuring.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department today recognized the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production at INEOS Bio’s Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida. Developed through a joint venture between INEOS Bio and New Planet Energy, the project uses a unique hybrid of gasification...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Involving Bank Fraud, Money Laundering And Drug Manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: VERO BEACH, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Deryl Loar, Sheriff, Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, announce the arrest of five Vero Beach residents: ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Freddy Centeno, of Brownsville, has been arrested following the return of two-count indictment alleging money laundering for a convicted drug trafficker and making false statements to federal agents, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeannette N. Awasum, the former owner of a health care provider, was sentenced today to eight months of incarceration on a federal charge stemming from falsifying records in connection with a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services audit.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: “Today we will mark up the Workforce Investment Act of 2013, a bill to reauthorize our nation’s primary workforce development system. Our actions today are crucial and long overdue - the last reauthorization of this law expired in 2003. With this mark-up, we have the opportunity to strengthen the foundations of the existing system while modernizing it further to help workers get the service and skills they need and to help our businesses grow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), highlighted the Committee’s vote to report the Federal Real Property Asset Management Reform Act of 2013 to the full Senate. This legislation, cosponsored...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas N. Frazier sentenced Juergen H. Kreuzer (52, Cape Coral) yesterday to a fine of $4,000 for operating a vessel at 55 miles per hour in a posted and marked 25 mile per hour manatee protection zone. Kreuzer was operating his vessel on the Caloosahatchee River, near Shell Point. He pleaded guilty on July 16, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved H.R. 2728, the Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act by a bipartisan vote of 23-15. This bill, authored by Rep. Bill Flores (TX-17), would protect American jobs and American energy production...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Seven Others Appear for Pleas and Sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Hutcheson Must Pay Fraud Victims More Than $5.3 Million in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee issued a minority staff report on, “U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony before the Committee and the Justice Department’s Investigation of national security leaks." Following the release of this report, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury late Tuesday indicted a Huntsville man on child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Alabama Bureau of Investigation Chief Neil Tew.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Alejandro A. Salas, age 65, of Silver Spring, Maryland today to 18 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for making a false statement on a tax return. Judge Titus also ordered Salas to pay $393,018 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury late Tuesday indicted three northeast Alabama residents for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Marshall County, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: A criminal information was charging a Massillon man with bank embezzlement and false returns related to a scheme in which he defrauded four clients out of $442,072, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
